As a new week dawns today on the Amadou Diallo trial, an activist minister seeking justice for the slain West African immigrant said he expects the Albany jury will do the right thing.

The Rev. Herbert Daughtry, pastor of the House of the Lord Pentecostal Church in Brooklyn, said yesterday that several Albany residents had approached him to express support.

Speaking at his church during a memorial service for Diallo, who died in a hail of 41 police bullets outside his apartment last February, Daughtry said many Albany residents deny the notion that the murder trial’s change of venue from The Bronx automatically means the four accused officers will get off.

“They’re saying, ‘Listen, you sent this thing to us. You want us to participate in this charade — but we refuse to participate,”’ Daughtry said.

“I think they’re saying, ‘We want to show the world we can be fair.'”

Daughtry also dismissed the bid by Officer Kenneth Boss to personally express his sorrow to Diallo’s family.

“They’re on trial for what they did, not for what they feel like after they’d done it,” the minister said. “Let’s deal with the crime.”

Daughtry is not the only skeptic of the expected defense strategy claiming the officers fired because they thought Diallo reached for a gun.